Ben Eisenbraun <b...@klatsch.org> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:14:59AM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > > _What I want_: > > > > I'd like to be able to offline have access to my entire e-mail store > > from all devices--be able to search through and read messages, write > > messages and queue them for sending, move messages between folders, > > set/change flags on messages--and then have everything sync-up every > > which way when I go online: I want messages that have been queued for > > sending to be sent, I want messages that were already in the store(s) > > to have changes to their flags propagated, and I want new inbound > > messages to be retrieved and cached locally. Basically, I want > > everything mirrored everywhere, and I don't want to have to think > > about *where* something last changed. > > This is what OfflineIMAP was written for: > > http://wiki.github.com/jgoerzen/offlineimap/ > > Here's an old Linux Journal article by the author talking about why he > wrote and walking through some initial set up: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7232 > > Have fun. :-)
Thanks, Ben--any thoughts on the `sync topology' question, since I've got 4+ machines where I want the mail-store kept in sync? If I can sync between machines on the same LAN segment when possible, and synch the laptop or handheld to the server in the sky when I'm off-lan, and then sync the laptop and the handheld to each other, and so forth..., then it seems like that'd be a win in terms of sync-speed (it's much faster to sync my laptop directly to my desktop the 100T than it is to sync either with the server in the sky, especially if I have to sync one with the sky-server and then the other with the one...; and it's *much* faster to sync the FreeRunner with anything local than over the GPRS link). But I know that tools that are just designed to sync pairwise can be utterly confused/broken by complex sync-topologies (so when I sync my files with Unison, for example, I normally just use a star topology-- and an eager one at that). Also, is it reasonable to start/stop offlineimap in my ifup/ifdown scripts, to have it keep a `running sync' while I'm online? How come systems don't do this by default? ;) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/